Kiwi Kid Check List

Whangamata, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand
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Whangamata, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand

A bit of nostalgia can be a great thing – many things which help shape our identities as Kiwis begin in childhood – from food, to culture, to traditions. Some of our favourites, particularly in the form make the occasional guest appearance now (K-Bar chocolate anyone?)

If you consider yourself a good Kiwi kid, have a look down this list (and please add any others you think of in the comments below).

 

 

In the food category

  • Your own personal MallowPuff eating style – smashing them on your forehead/eating the top first/leaving the top until last/trying to bite them exactly in half.
  • Cheerios and Fairy bread (go on, admit it, at kid’s parties, you often still sneak more than your fair share.
  • Hot chips at the beach, complete with sand in the sauce (they taste different at the beach than anywhere else).
  • 50c mixtures at the dairy – with your fingers crossed for lots of jet planes, jaffas and milk bottles.
  • Marmite and chip sandwiches in your lunchbox.
  • L&P

In the school category

  • Skipping for fitness with one long rope.
  • Elastics
  • Sniffing Scented Markers.
  • Covering your hand in PVA glue and letting it dry, so you could peel it off.
  • Those bl**dy wooden vaults in PE
  • “Ma is white, whero is red…”
  • Writing words on an upside down calculator (extra points if you spelled more than ‘Hello’ or ‘Boobs.’

In the home category

  • Prickles on the lawn but going barefoot anyway
  • Goodnight Kiwi – what an achievement to stay up long enough to see him!
  • Playing spotlight while Mum and Dad had people over to visit
  • Holding a buttercup under someone’s chin to see if they like butter.
  • No seatbelts in the backseat of the car
  • Getting colour TV

In the beach category

  • Bombs off a wharf
  • Burning your feet at black sand beaches
  • Bat down or beach cricket
  • Coppertone sunscreen
  • Zinc on noses or peeling noses
  • Collecting pipis

In the sport category

  • The All Blacks. Legends since ages ago.
  • Getting up in the night to watch the FA Cup finals.
  • Bullrush
  • Swingball
  • The Haka
  • Running down sand dunes at full clip